1. Lesson 2: Controlling Nature and Farming Revolution
Era 1 Unit 1
Lesson 2: Controlling Nature and Farming Revolution

2. Bell Ringer
Agenda
What are the differences between archeologist, paleontologist, and anthropologist?
Lecture
Video (Crash Course)
Check for Understanding
H.W.
Read Pg.
Vocab

3. What’s for dinner?
Early humans were hunters and gatherers who survived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants, berries and nuts for food.

4. Early Man Societies
Were nomadic (migrated in search of food, water and shelter)
Lived in clans
Developed oral language
Invented the first tools, including simple weapons
Created “cave art”
Learned how to make fire

5. Paleolithic Art Jewelry Figurines Cave paintings Seashells lion’ teeth
bear claws
mammoth tusks (polish beads)
Figurines
Cave paintings
Blood
Charcoal
Mud

6. Tools Spears Digging Sticks Knives Fish hooks and harpoons Needles
For great distance
Digging Sticks
Gathering plants
Knives
Cook prep
Fish hooks and harpoons
Needles
Over 100 tools made from bone, stone, and wood.

7. Neolithic Revolution (Farming Revolution)
Ice Age ending
Earth is warming
Sea level rises
Land Bridges disappear
Ex. Bering Land Bridge/ Bering Strait

8. The Agricultural Revolution Begins.
Agricultural Advances
Seeds scattered at a regular campsite result in crops the following season
Slash and Burn Farming- burn trees and/or grass in field to fertilize for planted crops
Changed every 1-2 years
Domestication of animals
Horses
Dogs
Goats
Pigs
Sheep
Camels
Were also tended by pastoral nomads

9. Farming in Different Areas
Africa
Nile River Valley
Wheat, barley, and other crops
China
Huang He (8000 years ago)
Millet
Chang Jiang River Delta (7000 years ago)
Wild rice
Mexico and Central America
Corn, beans, squash
Peru
Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, white potatoes

11. Agricultural Villages
Jerico
Catal Huyuk
Birthplace of Agriculture
Northeastern Iraq
Wild wheat and Barley
Domesticated
goats, pigs, sheep, and horses
9000 years ago
South-Central Turkey
Wheat, barley, and peas
Domesticated
Sheep and cattle
8000 years ago
Worshiped “Mother Goddess”
Thought to control the supply of grain

12. Drawbacks for Villages
Living close together brought
Diseases spreading easily
Jealousy
Roving nomadic band
Might attack and look wealthy village
Natural disaster could devastate
Floods
Fires
Droughts

13. Crash Course

14. Check for Understanding
If you were looking for a place to settle your new village where would it be?
Looking for a location
Be sure to mention the crops and/or animals you’d raise. As well as, what you would need to look out for. Ex. Natural disasters